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ziggywiggy's avatar

We also have our Movie Night tradition coming up, 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 starts at 4pm ET.

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WomanInThePersistence's avatar

Eat me! We once were pets but now we're food!

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Joe Z's avatar

"I've decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground."

https://youtu.be/qnGnj_e6gBw?si=RWaZXf3lAeKbUYj6

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ziggywiggy's avatar

Next week, yeah, well, that's just like, your opinion, man. It's 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐋𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐤𝐢. https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-nov-23-the-big?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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zuludaddy (seem 'on key?')'s avatar

yeeeeees

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Schmannity's avatar

From the It Could Be Worse Department:

"Panic in UK city as horde of rats escapes from massive sinkhole with locals terrified

A tide of chittering vermin has enveloped a housing estate and destroyed 22 vehicles according to reports."

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1977043/panic-uk-city-horde-rats-nottingham?utm_source=daily_express_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=auto_daily_newsletter&utm_content=&utm_term=&ruid=a9579894-f0c3-4ba4-bc42-adb3e2f5a88e

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Pauly2coffees's avatar

By June, I bet we’ll all be begging for the halcyon days of the rats.

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Daniel's avatar

And in Nottingham, our most Hamelin-like city.

Fucking Brexit means we can't just stick a piper on a ferry and have him fix it.

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Schmannity's avatar

"Corrupt DOJ’s Criminal Actions Against Alex Jones To Be Investigated By Trump DOJ

Alex Jones discusses former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark’s breakdown of the unfolding scandal with the The Onion’s rigged bid of Infowars in a secret sale disguised as an auction and what is likely to come next."

When will these Sandy Hook parents be jailed in Guantanamo??

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Huh. I don't think the DOJ was involved in CIVIL case against Jones and his company.

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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

What does that have to do with their plans for revenge? I saw where they are planning to compile a list of the officers who at the Afghanistan airport and try to court marshal them for ruining Orange Turd's perfect plan.

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Goin Green's avatar

It doesn't matter. Trump has never said a single cogent thing about government in his life, why should he start now?

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Schmannity's avatar

Oh, but the Bankruptcy Courts are Federal courts who do as Biden says!

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

I hate these fucking fascists.

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Singer/songwriter Gene Clark of the Byrds was born this day in 1944. Here's the best Byrds song you've never heard, "One in a Hundred":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zorBEyIl7rw

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

So this is as Cat as a purr and a paw shake. https://substack.com/@tootsstansbury/note/c-77592121

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Daniel's avatar

https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3lb5kculdtc2j

I mean. I respect Elisha Otis, and he did benefit mankind but it's fair to ask- at what cost?

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Prostate of Dorian Gray's avatar

Is that David Arquette in the middle?

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Daniel's avatar

Please no.

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Werewolf's avatar

The Lovely Missus Werewolf is driving up to Santa Monica today. Her stepmother (FIL’s second wife) has a really nasty cancer-she’s in the hospital right now because the tumor was pressing on her urethra and preventing her from peeing. She has a catheter now, and we’re hoping they can start chemo while she’s inpatient. To be clear, it’s palliative chemo-there’s no chance of remission. She’ll die in the next year or year and a half. My sister in law is freaking out, so the Missus is going there to support her. We were going to spend the day together to celebrate my birthday last week. Fuck cancer.

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Regret's avatar

I did not know there was such a thing as palliative chemo, I thought chemo was always the nuclear option for when you're willing to suffer through anything to survive. Shows what I know (nothing).

Anyway, I'm sorry to hear that. Fuck cancer. I hope she gets to live with as good as possible quality of life for her remaining time.

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Werewolf's avatar

In cases where a tumor is causing a lot of pain, it’s used to shrink the tumor. Chemo is particularly effective on this kind of cancer-but once it’s metastatic, it can only delay the inevitable.

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You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

Dang, sorry to hear that. Fuck cancer indeed, took my Dad.

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Meccalopolis's avatar

Aw, man. Sorry.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Yes, fuck cancer. Did I know it was your birthday? In case I missed it, have this late: Happy birthday. May your next trip around the sun bless you with love, health, peace, grace, abundance, prosperity, integrity, longevity, laughter, tears, friendship, courage, compassion, creativity, community, and joy. 🌺

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Zap's avatar

Sorry man.

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

I am so sorry.

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Daniel's avatar

I am so sorry. I hope she spends her last months, or year, in as much joy as she can.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

I’m sorry, and yes, fuck cancer.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

I am so sorry, cousin. Your wife is such a wonderful woman to be there for her stepmother and her father as well when they're suffering. It breaks my heart, however, that you also have to make sacrifices as well. Particularly now with our world in chaos.

Willing you all of my love and what strength I possess as intensely as I can, my friend. Please keep yourself safe and find something beautiful to just enjoy because it is there. <3

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Werewolf's avatar

She’s there to support her (half-) sister. FIL is on wife #3, and they live here in San Diego (he’s not doing so great, either).

It’s a beautiful day here-I’ll go for a long bike ride in a bit. And probably go for a nice walk with the dogs.

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Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

Solidarity, Were...

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Strength and peace to you, friend.

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Fartknocker's avatar

Well, this appears to be the dumbest sentence I've read today, courtesy of one of President Fat Ass (PFA) choices to run the US Treasury:

“Bitcoin is the currency of freedom, a hedge against inflation for middle class Americans.”

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

Funny how much that sounds like the sort of pitch you'd get from an MLM or Ponzi scheme.

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Russell Jones's avatar

I came to terms long with the fact that I'll never be able to afford retirement, so the Social Security trust fund's impending cryptofication isn't personal. Still, one can't help but feel awful for people who depend on getting actual money every month.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

JFC. Bitcoin isn't a currency, it's (at best) a penny stock scam. Can you imagine what would happen if the US dollar was no longer a reserve currency?

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Regret's avatar

Bitcoin is more traceable and harder to counterfeit than a regular currency, the value is incredibly unstable, and transactions are incredibly polluting. But why do you say it is not a currency? What definition are we using here?

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

Yes. We're looking forward to it.

- Pan Gongsheng, Governor, People's Bank of China

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Schmannity's avatar

"(suckers!")

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ExecutorElassus's avatar

I am now taking bets on the final result for what will almost certainly be the world-record speedrun of "how fast can we take a roaring economy and turn it into the worst collapse in history?"

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SkeptiKC's avatar

What will be the official historical start date of what will be known as the Greatest Global Depression??

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ExecutorElassus's avatar

My money's on a crash before the end of summer.

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Pauly2coffees's avatar

The question isn’t whether or not we’re fucked, it’s how fucked are we?

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SkeptiKC's avatar

FULL fucking stop.

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Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

Do you take bananacoins?...

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oldmechanician's avatar

Only if they are distributed in the spaces between large strawberries which are resideng in a pre-baked pie shell and immersed in a thickened strawberry syrup and covered in a generous layer of whipped cream. AKA strawberry banana pie. ( A specialty of my late MIL and late wife.)

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Lucy Bea's avatar

That sounds delicious!

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oldmechanician's avatar

It is considered by many members of my family to be to be the most delicious pie of all. I don't eat anything with added sugar ( to avoid diabetes) , so i haven't made one in the last twenty years.( I do still make the holiday apple pies because everyone seems to like my version, but I don't eat them.

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Corvid Opera's avatar

Imagine you’re God, your finger hovering over the “smite” button, hesitating to push it because you’re kinda bummed out about the sunk cost of your creation and all. Then imagine you read that sentence…

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SkeptiKC's avatar

The Depraved Despot almost certainly gets kick-backs from these bitcoin crooks for encouraging and promoting the investment in fiat [FAKE!!!] $$$ by American citizens.

It's not as if any of THEM give a fuck whom they bankrupt.

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TerseNurse's avatar

well, the day is still young.

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TerseNurse's avatar

I don't get to go climbing with my kid today because he has too much homework. Can't learn to be a good corporate drone if you don't learn to spend all your weekends and free time on busy work.

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Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

𝗢𝗵 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁, 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝗯𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘀

𝘖𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬?

https://substack.com/@jefftiedrich/p-151696446

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tehbaddr's avatar

Now just wait a minute, let's hear him out!

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Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

Let's just see him out...

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tehbaddr's avatar

But let him speak what he has left of his mind first!

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Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah...

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Babe Paley's avatar

I just read this--so good.

Also the tweet (I believe it was) from someone who was like, "Everyone needs to stop freaking out about raw milk! If you boil it it's totally fine!" which may be one of my favorite idiot comments for so many reasons.

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Zap's avatar

Circular illogic.

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Shananigan's avatar

Wait, they weren't snarking?

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SkeptiKC's avatar

The tone of that thread strongly suggests that the individual who posted that does NOT understand pasteurization.

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Babe Paley's avatar

It didn't seem from the rest of their posts that they were.

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Babe Paley's avatar

It blows my mind that not really that long ago, people were thinking that it was so FUCKING AMAZING that they could get pasteurized milk--"remember how my sister Gladys died so needlessly? Won't happen to you kids!" and now we've got "raw milk is magic--those people who had 45 year lifespans on average were ON TO SOMETHING!"

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Spleen Victoria's avatar

But what if you want cattle-borne tuberculosis? Huh, libs?

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Babe Paley's avatar

FREEDOM!

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EyeQueue's avatar

We're surrounded by stupid.

And there was a piece in The Guardian about how magic and superstition are on the rise. Jesus Fuck. :(

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Frank Talk, Action Pundit!'s avatar

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Polio

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

Huh...I'm starting to think Democrats may not be the "threat from within."

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pete Hegseth, the Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Defense, was flagged as a possible “Insider Threat” by a fellow service member due to a tattoo on his bicep that's associated with white supremacist groups.

Hegseth, who has downplayed the role of military members and veterans in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and railed against the Pentagon’s subsequent efforts to address extremism in the ranks, has said he was pulled by his District of Columbia National Guard unit from guarding Joe Biden’s January 2021 inauguration. He's said he was unfairly identified as an extremist due to a cross tattoo on his chest.

This week, however, a fellow Guard member who was the unit’s security manager and on an anti-terrorism team at the time, shared with The Associated Press an email he sent to the unit’s leadership flagging a different tattoo reading “Deus Vult” that’s been used by white supremacists, concerned it was an indication of an “Insider Threat.”

I'm also starting to think a rapist, white nationalist, with zero experience or credentials, MAY not be the right person to head up the Pentagon.

https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-defense-pick-had-flagged-205034367.html

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Zap's avatar

That’s exactly the plan.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

"God wills it" Which one?

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Zyxomma's avatar

Kali-Ma LIBELZ!!1!!!!!11!!!!

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

'In the interests of world peace, we will be withdrawing all our military assets from Europe.'

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Birb-General of the US's avatar

Haha the new cabinet members' jobs are not to run their agencies, it is to go on TV and praise Donald Trump. That is all.

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Corvid Opera's avatar

“…however, a fellow Guard member who was the unit’s security manager and on an anti-terrorism team at the time…”

Oh, so one of those elite/snobby “experts,” who not only had access to education/information about the subject at hand, but also actually interacted with the individual in question? Please, I’ll decide who is and who isn’t a white supremacist by doing my own research!

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

What could POSSIBLY go wrong with putting a white, Christofascist, in charge of the Pentagon? No more diversity!

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EyeQueue's avatar

That "Deus Vult" bullshit is basically him being on the side of christofascists that want to literally *kill* anyone who won't convert.

God wills it.

Fuck all the way off with that shit. We have a constitutional right to NOT FUCKING BELIEVE IN THIS SHIT!

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Werewolf's avatar

The battle-cry of the genocidal Nazis in chain mail known as “Crusaders”.

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EyeQueue's avatar

Yep. :( :(

That tattoo should be disqualifying. If something similar were sported on a Dem, all Hell would fucking break loose.

I'm so beyond tired of right wingers being held to a different standard.

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

For now.

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TerseNurse's avatar

funny, that's not what Putin said...

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

Putin must be enjoying the shit out of his massive victory. Next stop - POLAND!

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TerseNurse's avatar

It's kind of amazing to me that Russia is so good at 'soft warfare' and so incredibly bad at actual boots-on-the-ground shooting bullets warfare.

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Prostate of Dorian Gray's avatar

The OSS taught them everything about propaganda.

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

It used to be the other way around.

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Daniel's avatar

Sula vie dilejo

Sula vie milejo

Cheli venco deho

Cheli venco deho

Malio

Helibo seyoman

Cheli venco raero

Malio

Malio

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Composer David Amram is 94 today. Here he is performing his theme from "Splendor in the Grass" with Vic Juris on guitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wolfHMCWpS0

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Daniel's avatar

Isn't vic juris a legal term?

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Zeitgeist's avatar

Short lived 70s action show. Mostly remembered for the catchphrase “Tayback’s a bitch.”

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Mysterysurf's avatar

You may play guitar in court, but only tasteful jazz guitar.

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tehbaddr's avatar

Bunday Caturday Extra Special Bonus Surprise GIFT!

https://i.imgur.com/JgyQ08B.jpeg

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Pat Kolmer's avatar

Good morning.

Here at Chez Kolmer, we have the entire family over for the weekend.

My kids treat me like a god.

They ignore my existence, except when they need something.

*

Hey, how 'bout those Mets, huh?

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Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

Will you libs just give the guy who has NO qualifications and wants to burn it all down a chance? Geez!

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“My Head is Not Exploding’: Bill Maher Says He’s Willing to Give RFK Jr. a Chance to Run ‘F*cked’ American Health System”

Bill Maher said on Friday’s edition of Real Time that the American healthcare system is in shambles and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. couldn’t make it much worse.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/my-head-is-not-exploding-bill-maher-says-hes-willing-to-give-rfk-jr-a-chance-to-run-fcked-american-health-system/

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Meccalopolis's avatar

Yeah, what's the worst that could happe ... Oh.

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Appalachian in Thailand's avatar

I saw a different version of this article where they referred to Maher as a 'liberal icon'! Get the fuck out with that shit.

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

See also: Glenn Greenwald

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

NEVER underestimate the power of the GQP to make things worse, much worse.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Hmmmm, a dipshit giving an unreasoned and indefensible opinion about a lunatic...

This is going to happen a lot, I'm guessing

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SkeptiKC's avatar

Oh YES he can.

Watch.

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ExecutorElassus's avatar

Fuck it, let's just do it and be legends, man…

FUCK

I hate these people so much.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

As of late I find my own capacity for hatred and loathing a little bit frightening.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

My anger has reached a new level.

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EyeQueue's avatar

Yep. It is scary.

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

America may need to get angry before things change. As a friend of mine's mother used to say "if it sucks enough, you'll change it."

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Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

What’s weird about this is, as a comedian Bill should be having a field day with this nomination.

“They want to put a guy who cut the head off a wale carcass with a chainsaw and put it on the roof of his car in charge of WHAT?”

But nope he’s going out of his way to make normal people seem unreasonable. Fuck him.

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Daniel's avatar

You'd have thought Democrats would have been happy about this- in the past, Jimmy Carter used to have to go to Africa to cure people with worms in their brain. It's nice the Republicans are gonna let him work from home now.

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Daniel's avatar

"Take these pills three times a day and" [gurns to the crowd so they know THIS IS THE PUNCHLINE] "call me in a week, Ishmael."

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Russell Jones's avatar

Great. Just great. While we're at it, let's place Rudy 9iu11iani in charge of Make American Sober Again and put Andrew Tate in charge of rape crisis services.

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Corvid Opera's avatar

Nothing like a super rich dickhead basically telling far more vulnerable populations not to get so hysterical about, oh, just their *very lives/quality of life.*

GFY, Billy Boy

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Daniel's avatar

I ask this often, and it sounds like I'm just exasperated, but I mean it seriously- who the fuck listens to Bill Maher?

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Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

Chuck Todd probably but that’s it.

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Teen Laqueefa's avatar

Rich people are usually assholes.

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Thesaurus Wrecks's avatar

Bill is so full of shit. He thinks the Dems are the anti-common sense party.

Bill Maher Goes Scorched Earth On Dems For ‘Doubling Down’ On ‘Anti-Common Sense Agenda’ After Losses: ‘Stop Digging!’

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-goes-scorched-earth-on-dems-for-doubling-down-on-anti-common-sense-agenda-after-losses-stop-digging/

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Prostate of Dorian Gray's avatar

It keeps boiling down to "Stop protecting trans kids." That's an unacceptable position.

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TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

If anyone needs to STFU…

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Schmannity's avatar

Shambles? Leave Trump's gait out of it.

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Pauly2coffees's avatar

I would call it “lumbering,” as in “lumbering oaf.”

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Daniel's avatar

I'd call it "shambles" because it will be bloody, disease ridden and full of discarded offal.

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Daniel's avatar

To be fair, it's the best word for what stooge for big offal and big roadkill RFK Jr is going to do.

He's basically going to force medicine in the US back to the "hit it with herbs, stick leeches on it, saw it off" era.

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Jessica's avatar

To be fair to leeches, they are useful when reattaching severed digits

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Notorious J.I.M.'s avatar

And Laudanum, also too.

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

Finally, some GOOD news!

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Daniel's avatar

Again, because I say everything that I say over and over again, you can still get prescribed laudanum in the UK but only for one condition.

Uncontrollable and potentially fatal diarrhœa.

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Schmannity's avatar

Bad humors and vapors.

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

'Don't worry, Mrs Johnson, it's just a common fluxion. Spread fresh horse manure on it twice a day and you'll be fine in a month.'

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